I saw this on the 7th of May 2024 at the independent cinema.
The aesthetic was gorgeous - the film colouring, the mix of handheld and professional cinematography, the experimental sound editing and visuals, and the actors were incredible.
The lead, Talia Ryder, inhabited her role to the extent that I genuinely couldn’t tell if that was just her real personality. Jacob Elordi was also there in his classic persona for a short while, but oddly enough I thought the most compelling side character was the fringe-conspiracy-theorist/white supremacist she stays with for a while midway through the film.
The film itself was an incredible slice of life adventure story, and the main character was just so engaging and watchable in her flawed, almost anti-hero tendencies. She’s deeply cynical, irreverent and aloof, but also imbued with an oddly ethereal quality (which I’m sure the casting helped with - she’s stunning). The exploration of her interactions with all of the people she meets somehow interrogated hot girl disaffection, contemporary Americana, and the nuance of all the characters involved.
All this incoherence to say I really really liked it, and other people will do a better job of explaining it than I would.